Prof. Dr. Hong Yu Wong
Chair of philosophy with a focus on cognitive science
University ofTübingen
Philosophical Seminar
Bursagasse 1
D - 72070 Tübingen
+49 (0)7071 29 74347
hong-yu.wong @uni-tuebingen.de
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Consultation hours: by appointment, Room No. 321, Burse,
Main research
- Philosophy of mind
- Philosophy of congnitive sciences
- Action theory
- Metaphysics
- Aesthetics
CV
Seit 2017 | Professorship for Philosophy, Tübingen University |
2010 - 2016 | Junior Research Group Leader, CIN Philosophy of Neuroscience Group, Tübingen University |
2009 - 2010 | Jacobsen Research Fellow and CenSes Fellow, Institute of Philosophy, University of London |
2009 | PhD in Philosophy, University College London |
2006 | MPhil in Philosophy, University College London |
Publications
de Vignemont, F., Serino, A., Wong, H.Y., and Farne, A. (eds.) The world at your finger tip: a multidisciplinary exploration of peripersonal space, Oxford University Press (2021)
Orbán, K. and Wong, H.Y. “On the Possibility of Multimodal Bodily Immunity to Error Through Misidentification”, in F. Calzavarini & M. Viola (eds.) New Challenges in Philosophy of Neuroscience, Springer, 2021.
Wong, H.Y. “Embodied Agency”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, doi: 10.1111/phpr.12392, 2018.
van der Veer, A.H., Alsmith, A.J.T., Longo, M., Wong, H.Y., Bülthoff, H.H., Mohler, B.J. (2018) “Where am I in virtual reality?” PLoS ONE 13(10): e0204358.
Wong, H.Y. “In and Out of Balance”, in F. de Vignemont and A. Alsmith (eds.) The Subject’s Matter: Self-Consciousness and the Body, MIT Press, 2017.
Wong, H.Y. “On Proprioception in Action: Multimodality versus Deafferentation,” Mind and Language 32(3): 259-282, 2017.
Wong, H.Y. “On the Significance of Bodily Awareness for Action”, Philosophical Quarterly, 65: 790-812, 2015.
Linkenauger, S.A., Wong, H.Y., Geuss, M., Stefanucci, J.K., Proffitt, D.R., Bülthoff, H.H., and Mohler, B.J. (2015) “The Perceptual Homunculus: The Perception of Bodily Proportions”, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 144: 103-113.
Wong, H.Y. “Personal and Sub-Personal: Overcoming Explanatory Apartheid”, in T.-W. Hung (ed.) Communicative Action (Singapore: Springer, 2014), pp. 93-104.
Wong, H.Y. “Cartesian Psychophysics”, in P. van Inwagen and D. Zimmerman (eds.), Persons: Human and Divine (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 169-195.
Wong, H.Y. “Emergents from Fusion”, Philosophy of Science, vol. 73, pp. 345-367 (2006).
O’Connor, T., and Wong, H.Y. “The Metaphysics of Emergence”, Noûs 39: 658-678 (2005).
Doctoral candidates
Julian Saccone
Academic assistants
Rebecca Dreier